Whitby, Daniel, D.D., an eminent English divine, was born at Kushden, Northamptonshire, in 1638. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1G57, and became a fellow in I()64; took holy orders, became chaplain to Dr. Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, and was made prebeiidary of Salisbury in October, 1668; was admitted precentor of the same church in 1672 , became rector of St. Ed- mund's, Salisbury, about the same time, which was his last preferment, and where he died, March 24, 1726. Among his published works are, Romish Doctrines not from the Beginning (1664): — Endeavor to Evince the Certainty of Christian Faith (1671): — Discourse con- cerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome (1674) : — Absurdity and Idolatry of Host Worship Proved (1679); — The Protestant Reconciler Humbly Pleading fur Con- descension to Dissenting Brethren (1683). This work was condemned to be burned by the University of Ox- ford, and publicly retracted by Whitby: — A Para- phrase and Commentary on the New Testament (1703) : — Discourse of the Necessity and Usefulness of the Chris- tian Revelation (1705). Late in life he became an Arian, and engaged in a dispute with Dr.Waterland. He was a voluminous writer, the above-mentioned works being only a small part of what he gave to the public. His Paraphrase and Commentary is considered his best ■work. See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
"White, Charles, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born at Randolph, Mass., Dec. 28, 1795. He was a lin- eal descendant of Peregrine White of the famous "May- flower;" graduated at Dartmouth College with the first honors of his class in 1821 ; studied theology at Ando- ver, Mass.; after licensure to preach, was settled as colleague pastor with his stepfather, Kev. Asa Burton, D.D., at Thetford, Vt.; subsequently over the Church in Cazenovia, N. Y., and again at Owego, N. Y. ; elect- ed president of Wabash College, Ind., and entered upon his duties in October, 1841, and his presidency was of twenty years' continuance. In this last relation he met the manifold responsibilities of h'is office with fi- delity and energy. He shrank from no labor that the embarrassed condition of the college, when he entered
on its presidency, demanded at his hands ; and he had the satisfaction of seeing, long before his death, as one result of his labor, a larger number of students in the college classes alone than he found in all the depart- ments when lie entered upon the presidency. He died suddenly, Oct. 29, 1861. Dr. White was a ripe and ac- curate scholar, an able teacher, an impressive preacher, and a sound theologian. He published Essays in Lit- erature and Ethics (Boston, 1853, 12mo), and contributed four sermons to the National Preacher, and articles (the most of which were republished in his Essays} to the Biblical Repository and Bibliotheca Sacra. See Wilson, P?-esb. Hist. Almanac, 1863, p. 313; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A me?: A uthors, s. v. (J. L. S.)
White, Francis, D.D., an English prelate who flourished in the early part of the 17th century, was ed- ucated at Cambridge ; became dean of Carlisle in 1622 ; bishop of Carlisle in 1626 ; bishop of Norwich in 1629 ; bishop of Ely in 1631 ; and died in February, 1637 or 1638. He was the author of. Orthodox Faith and the Way to the Church Explained and Justified against T. W. (1617) : — Replie to Jesuit Fisher's A nswer to Certain Questions Propotinded by James I, etc. (1624) : — Treatise of the Sabbath Day against Sabbatarian Novelty (1636) : — and other works. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
White, Henry, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born at Durham, Greene Co., N. Y., June 19, 1800. He received his preparatory training in the academy at Greencastle; graduated with high honor at Union Col- lege in 1824; studied theology in the Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary; was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Columbia in 1826, and immediately after entered upon an agency for the American Bible Society, his field being in the Southern States. In 1828 he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Allen Street Church, New York city, vifhere he continued until the establishment of the Union Theological Seminary in 1836, when he was elected to the professorship of theol- og}' in that institution, which office he continued to hold until his death, Aug. 25, 1850. Dr. White had natu- rall}'' a strong, discriminating mind, well balanced, and abounding in practical wisdom. As a preacher, he was eminently thoughtful, clear, convincing, and pungent. As a teacher of theology, he had peculiar and almost unrivalled excellence. He published a Sennon on the Death of John Nitchie (1838), and a Sei-mon on the Abrahamic Covenant (1846). See Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, iv, 691; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. (J. L. S.)
White, Joseph (1), D.D., an English clergyman and eminent Oriental scholar, was born at Stroud, in Gloucestershire, in 1746. He was the son of a weaver, and was designed for his father's calling, but having been sent to a charity-school at Gloucester, and hav- ing made rapid advancement, he was sent bv a gen- tleman of fortune to Oxford, where he graduated at Wadham College about 1770 ; became a fellow of that college in 1774; was appointed to archbishop Laud's professorship of Arabic in 1775 ; chosen in 1783 to preach the Bampton lecture for the following year, in the prep- aration of which he was assisted by Dr. Parr and Jlr. Samuel Badcock; became prebendary of Gloucester in 1788; was appointed rector of Melton in 1790; became prebendary of Oxford in 1802 ; regius professor of He- brew at Oxford the same year; and subsequently canon of Christ Church. He died at Oxford, May 22, 1814. He was the author of Z)e Utilitate Lingua; Arabicce in Studiis Theologicis Oratio (1776): — Testamenti NoviLi- bri Historici et Epistolce tarn Catholicce quam Paulince, Ve7-sio Syriaca Philoxeniana, etc. (1779-1803) : — A View of Christianity and Mohammedanism (Bampton Lect- ures) (Lond. 1784) :— and other works of great merit. See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.